A review by bluestarfish
Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel

5.0

This is quite a debut novel. And Muriel Axon is quite a character. This is a book of very black humour, an odd and quirky story, and is probably quite British (of the 1970s variation)... "Happiness seems a bit ambitious" remarks Isabel Field and this does seem to be the case for most of the novel where Colins interesting method of staving off too much despair by playing a recording of Sousa marches because "you wouldn't kill yourself after that -- after you'd marched about a bit. It would be too ridiculous." Full of little details like that and mad surreal moments, and some scary ones too. Such a hard novel to describe, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.